Well, it’s finally closed. We announced our intention to acquire Aduva February 28, 2006 and as of Tuesday, March 28 the deal closed. Welcome Aduva customers, partners, and employees! We’re delighted to have you in the Sun Microsystems family.

You might ask, “why would Sun purchase Aduva?” A good question with a very simple answer, we loved their technology. We can now combine what we’ve already put into the marketplace in Sun Update Connection with more coverage of platforms (myriad Linux distributions & platforms plus some legacy Solaris) and more features (baselines, active dependancy management, simulation, staging, aggregation, and rollback.)

If you’re an existing Aduva customer, this is great news for you as we’ll carry on the fantastic technology and approach with all the resource of Sun behind it. We invite you to contact us to give you detail behind our transition and plans.

Stay tuned, because a new Sun + Aduva service will be available this calendar year.